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I was elected president and CEO of the American Public Media Group (APMG) in 2011. Prior to becoming CEO, I served as Chief Operating Officer for APMG for eight years. APMG is the nation's largest owner and operator of public radio stations (99 stations in 8 states), including Minnesota Public Radio (Saint Paul/Minneapolis) and Southern California Public Radio (Los Angeles/Palm Springs/Ojai). APMG also produces and distributes premier national programming, including Marketplace and Performance Today, and is the distributor of BBC World Service programming to all public radio stations in the U.S. APM serves 20 million listeners each week on more than 1,000 radio stations in all 50 states, and millions more on APMG’s internet sites, social and mobile platforms. I have been deeply involved in APMG's growth since 1983, serving in senior leadership positions ranging from building radio stations and managing radio station groups to leading Digital Media, and head of Business Development to local and national Programming.In addition to more than 33-years at APMG, I've also led business development, strategic planning, fund raising for a private hospital group and its foundation in Reading, PA, and was vice president for Advancement and University Relations at a private liberal arts university in Riverside, CA. I have served on the Boards of National Public Radio (NPR), The Sheridan Story/Every Meal and Concordia Academy, and I'm an active member of the Itasca Project (a civic alliance of private-sector CEO’s, elected officials, public administrators and education leaders seeking new ways to address regional economic competitiveness and quality of life). I have a master's degree in public administration and a bachelor's degree in journalism communications.

Senior Executive with proven track record as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Operations Officer in publically traded and private corporations all with rapidly changing and highly competitive market environments. Also served in high ranking government positions, including Managing Director of the City of Philadelphia, the most senior non-elected position in the government.Specialties: Strong leadership and management skills in organizational settings with diverse constituencies. Particular strengths in:developing, communicating and executing clear vision and strategy for improved performance; ensuring individual high performance patterns to improve team performance; developing customer driven strategies; using vision and values to shift organization culture as required by market conditions, and; directing complex and major projects.

Deborah Acklin is president and chief executive officer of WQED Multimedia, the nation’s first community-owned public media company, also known worldwide as “Mister Rogers’ station”.Ms. Acklin has served in multiple executive roles in public broadcasting, the cable television industry, and commercial broadcasting. At WQED Multimedia, she manages or has managed the operations, strategies, and fundraising to create original multi-platform content distributed across three television channels, three radio signals, an interactive Web-based learning channel, an interactive global media distribution portal, an education department, a publishing division, and PBS, NPR and their member stations.Her tenure includes many achievements, including four Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards for Station and Overall Excellence, given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to a general manager of a commercial or public television station in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and New Jersey.

Margaret Low is Vice President of The Atlantic and President of AtlanticLIVE. She oversees all aspects of The Atlantic‘s live events team, which produces more than one hundred events each year across the country and around the world. Before joining The Atlantic, Smith was NPR’s Senior Vice President for News, where she oversaw that organization’s award winning news division and the work of nearly 400 broadcast and digital journalists. Smith also spent eleven years as NPR’s Vice President for Programming, where she developed the live events strategy for the hit show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! and oversaw all program acquisitions including Car Talk and Fresh Air. Low is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

As chief executive officer at the National Geographic Society, Dr. Jill Tiefenthaler oversees the development and implementation of the Society’s mission-driven work and programmatic agenda. She leads our global community of Explorers: scientists, innovators, educators, and storytellers-in our mission to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world. Jill sits on the Society’s Board of Trustees and the board of National Geographic Partners. Before joining the National Geographic Society, Jill spent nine years as the president of Colorado College. During this time, she helped set a new direction for the school, executed the most ambitious fundraising campaign in the college’s history, and developed and implemented a comprehensive strategic plan that expanded and cultivated an engaged and globally connected academic community. She developed a Campus Master Plan, executed an alliance to make the world-class Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center part of the college, and led the college’s efforts to achieve carbon neutrality. She also drove significant increases in diversity among the faculty and student body and led the campus community in an external review of racism at the college that resulted in an Antiracism Implementation Plan. Before leading Colorado College, Jill was provost of Wake Forest University, where she redesigned the admissions process to include an SAT-optional policy, integrated the university’s undergraduate and graduate business schools, established the Institute for Public Engagement and The Humanities Institute, and implemented “Living Our Values,” a plan to strengthen residential life and campus vibrancy. Jill began her academic career at Colgate University, where she was a full professor of economics before holding various administrative roles, including consultant to the president; associate dean of the faculty; founding director of the Upstate Institute; and chair of the department of economics. Originally from Iowa, Jill grew up on a farm and worked for her family’s popcorn business before attending Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, IN. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Duke University.